Does not have to be installed. See this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/concept-agentless-data-collection#how-agentless-scanning-wor

Does not have to be installed. See this: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/concept-agentless-data-collection#how-agentless-scanning-works https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/defender-for-cloud/c... A cloud provider can take snapshots of running VMs then run antivirus scan offline to minimize the impact to the customers. Similarly, many applications are containerized and the containers are stateless, we can scan the docker images instead. This approach has been quite mature.